Carly Demopoulos, PhD
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Dr. Carly Demopoulos is a clinical neuropsychologist and developmental neuroscientist. Her expertise is in utilizing multimodal neuroimaging, behavioral, and neuropsychological data to investigate the impact of sensorimotor abilities on children with neurodevelopmental disorders, with a particular focus on autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Show full bio (34 words) Hide full bio

Her current research focuses on understanding the sensory, motor, and neural mechanisms that underlie the heterogenous presentation of speech and voice characteristics as well as broader verbal and non-verbal communication in individuals with ASD.

Education & Training

Show all (5) Hide

• Postdoctoral Fellowship Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, & Neuroimaging University of California-San Francisco 10/2018
• PhD Clinical Psychology Illinois Institute of Technology 2013
• Internship Neuropsychology University of California-San Diego 2013
• MA Psychology Columbia University Teachers College 2002
• BA Psychology University of Chicago 2000

Websites

Show all (1) Hide

• Neurodevelopmental Assessment & Imaging Laboratory (autismneuro.ucsf.edu)

Grants and Projects

Show all (7) Hide

• Neural mechanisms of speech motor control in Autism Spectrum Disorders, NIH, 2021-2026
• Supplement to Recognize Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Mentorship, NIDCD, 2024-2025
• Remote sensing of biologically relevant charge fluxes through magnetosensation, Sandler Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research, 2024-2025
• Auditory mechanisms underlying vocal affect recognition deficits in autism, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences Weill Award for Clinical Neuroscience Research, 2022-2024
• Diversity Supplement to Neural mechanisms of speech motor control in Autism Spectrum Disorders, NIDCD, 2022-2024
• Vocal sensorimotor control and voice abnormalities in Autism Spectrum Disorders, NIH, 2018-2023
• The role of central auditory processing dysfunction in the control of speech in individuals with ASD, Autism Speaks, 2020-2021

Publications (22)

Top publication keywords:
Autism Spectrum DisorderAutistic DisorderNonverbal CommunicationSensation DisordersHearing LossFacial ExpressionMagnetoencephalographySpeechSocial PerceptionBrain WavesTinnitusChromosome DisordersAffectAuditory PerceptionConnectome

• Vocal and Facial Behavior During Affect Production in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
  Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR 2024 Kothare H, Ramanarayanan V, Neumann M, Liscombe J, Richter V, Lampinen L, Bai A, Preciado C, Brogan K, Demopoulos C
• Prenatal exposure to hypoxic risk conditions in autistic and neurotypical youth: Associated ventricular differences, sleep disturbance, and sensory processing.
  Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research 2024 Preciado C, Baida M, Li Y, Li Y, Demopoulos C
• Beyond words: an investigation of fine motor skills and the verbal communication spectrum in autism.
  Frontiers in psychiatry 2024 Simarro Gonzalez M, Ni G, Lam V, Demopoulos C
• Global MEG Resting State Functional Connectivity in Children with Autism and Sensory Processing Dysfunction.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 Demopoulos C, Jesson X, Gerdes MR, Jurigova BG, Hinkley LB, Ranasinghe KG, Desai S, Honma S, Mizuiri D, Findlay A, Nagarajan SS, Marco EJ
• Associations between rapid auditory processing of speech sounds and specific verbal communication skills in autism.
  Frontiers in psychology 2023 Demopoulos C, Skiba SA, Kopald BE, Bangera N, Paulson K, Lewine JD

Show all (17 more) Hide

• Language Abilities are Associated with Both Verbal and Nonverbal Intelligence in Children on the Autism Spectrum.
  Developmental neuropsychology 2023 Faerman A, Sakallah A, Skiba S, Kansara S, Kopald BE, Lewine JD, Demopoulos C
• Rapid auditory processing of puretones is associated with basic components of language in individuals with autism spectrum disorders.
  Brain and language 2023 Demopoulos C, Kopald BE, Bangera N, Paulson K, David Lewine J
• APA handbook of neuropsychology: Vol. 2. Neuroscience and neuromethods, G. G. Brown, B. Crosson, K. Y. Haaland, & T. Z. King (Eds.)
  Magnetoencephalography 2023 Demopoulos, C.
• Striatal networks for tinnitus treatment targeting.
  Human brain mapping 2021 Hinkley LBN, Larson PS, Henderson Sabes J, Mizuiri D, Demopoulos C, Adams ME, Neylan TC, Hess CP, Nagarajan SS, Cheung SW
• Global resting-state functional connectivity of neural oscillations in tinnitus with and without hearing loss.
  Human brain mapping 2020 Demopoulos C, Duong X, Hinkley LB, Ranasinghe KG, Mizuiri D, Garrett C, Honma S, Henderson-Sabes J, Findlay A, Racine-Belkoura C, Cheung SW, Nagarajan SS
• Phase I trial of caudate deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant tinnitus.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2019 Cheung SW, Racine CA, Henderson-Sabes J, Demopoulos C, Molinaro AM, Heath S, Nagarajan SS, Bourne AL, Rietcheck JE, Wang SS, Larson PS
• White Matter Microstructure Associations of Cognitive and Visuomotor Control in Children: A Sensory Processing Perspective.
  Frontiers in integrative neuroscience 2019 Brandes-Aitken A, Anguera JA, Chang YS, Demopoulos C, Owen JP, Gazzaley A, Mukherjee P, Marco EJ
• Characterizing cognitive and visuomotor control in children with sensory processing dysfunction and autism spectrum disorders.
  Neuropsychology 2018 Brandes-Aitken A, Anguera JA, Rolle CE, Desai SS, Demopoulos C, Skinner SN, Gazzaley A, Marco EJ
• Abnormal Speech Motor Control in Individuals with 16p11.2 Deletions.
  Scientific reports 2018 Demopoulos C, Kothare H, Mizuiri D, Henderson-Sabes J, Fregeau B, Tjernagel J, Houde JF, Sherr EH, Nagarajan SS
• Magnetoencephalographic Imaging of Auditory and Somatosensory Cortical Responses in Children with Autism and Sensory Processing Dysfunction.
  Frontiers in human neuroscience 2017 Demopoulos C, Yu N, Tripp J, Mota N, Brandes-Aitken AN, Desai SS, Hill SS, Antovich AD, Harris J, Honma S, Mizuiri D, Nagarajan SS, Marco EJ
• Relations Between Nonverbal and Verbal Social Cognitive Skills and Complex Social Behavior in Children and Adolescents with Autism.
  Journal of abnormal child psychology 2016 Demopoulos C, Hopkins J, Lewine JD
• Shared and Divergent Auditory and Tactile Processing in Children with Autism and Children with Sensory Processing Dysfunction Relative to Typically Developing Peers.
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2015 Demopoulos C, Brandes-Aitken AN, Desai SS, Hill SS, Antovich AD, Harris J, Marco EJ
• Deficits in auditory processing contribute to impairments in vocal affect recognition in autism spectrum disorders: A MEG study.
  Neuropsychology 2015 Demopoulos C, Hopkins J, Kopald BE, Paulson K, Doyle L, Andrews WE, Lewine JD
• Audiometric Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Does Subclinical Hearing Loss Impact Communication?
  Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research 2015 Demopoulos C, Lewine JD
• Corpus callosum in cognitive and sensory processing: insights into autism.
  Future Neurology 2015 Carly Demopoulos, Nina Yu, Lynn K Paul, Elliott H Sherr, Elysa J Marco
• Individuals with agenesis of the corpus callosum show sensory processing differences as measured by the sensory profile.
  Neuropsychology 2014 Demopoulos C, Arroyo MS, Dunn W, Strominger Z, Sherr EH, Marco E
• A comparison of social cognitive profiles in children with autism spectrum disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a matter of quantitative but not qualitative difference?
  Journal of autism and developmental disorders 2013 Demopoulos C, Hopkins J, Davis A